Questions for Us

Seriously, why?

The Dalai Lama put up the following quote on Facebook:

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will “not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

The simplicity of this staggers me.

Isn’t this what we ultimately and deeply desire? To be happy and at peace?

The global predicament we’re in, however, is one where more people than not believe that the attainment of true fulfilment is only possible with the obtaining of money.

Money = Power. How intoxicating.

It must be addictive – the drive to compete for more, to buy the best and most expensive – even oppress…because to gain it to the detriment – the sometimes terrible detriment – of others – is inhumane.

How can we turn a blind eye towards the people who just had the truly unfortunate, bad luck to be born into poverty, into violence and war, into slavery, into prostitution…

…into a cursed existence?

Cursed.

The Dalai Lama’s philosophy (solution) is so simple.

Can’t be worse than the cancer we have now –  infecting our global, toxic psyche.

Question #114: What have we got to lose?

Of course it will never be everybody thinking in this manner. Impossible.

…but couldn’t it at least be that there’s more of us, than them, to bring about a shift?

Ever hopefully yours,

Paula x